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Job Title: Head of English
Location: New Barn School, Newbury, Berkshire
Contract: Permanent, Term Time Only
Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Main Responsibilities:
* To ensure the highest standards of learning, achievement and development for all students in their English studies.
* Providing a vision for learning within the department in line with that of the school.
* Ensuring high standards of teaching, addressing any issues where teaching falls below the required standards;
* Ensuring high standards of leaning, addressing any issues evident from Acorn reviews, self review, or OFSTED inspection where learning falls below the required standards
* Ensuring that all courses have schemes of work which enable examination objectives and other whole school objectives to be met.
* Ensuring that learning is personalised through good use of assessment data and good assessment practice including focussed work for all ability levels
* Ensuring that department staff complete school monitoring, recording and reporting requirements to a high standard.
* Supporting the continuing professional development of department staff.
* Annual Performance Management of colleagues under direct line management.
Key Requirements:
* To lead the department's review and improvement planning work by: contributing to the faculty's annual self-review report.
New Barn School offers a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum to boys and girls, aged 6–19 years who have Social, Emotional and Mental Health complexities.
New Barn School takes full advantage of its beautiful settings and fosters a love for using the outdoor curriculum including forest school, farm experiences and horse riding.
The school is within a commutable distance of Swindon, Oxford, Andover, Basingstoke and Reading and other surrounding towns and villages.
We offer a stable, secure and supportive environment, in which the pupils and young people we care for can develop the skills and confidence necessary to help them fulfil their potential.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of pupils and young people.
All applicants will be subject to social media checks and successful applicants to a fully enhanced DBS.
Benefits:
* Life Assurance
* Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
* Your Wellbeing Matters – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
* A market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that's right for you, including:
o A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
o 100's of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
o Cycle to Work Schemes
o Electric Car Purchase Scheme
o Critical illness cover
o Family Growth Support - inclusive benefits package covering enhanced maternity and paternity leave, along with paid fertility treatment support.
* And that's not all, we place the outcomes of the pupils in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you'll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.
Estimated Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 per annum